Charles Johnson, ragtime musician and composer and arranger, spent most of his life in Kansas City, Missouri. It is believed that he made the first orchestra arrangement for the song "Missouri Waltz" and...

The R. T. Coles Vocational and Junior High School Collection contains items related to the activities of faculty and students at R. T. Coles Vocational and Junior High School in Kansas City, Missouri,...

Map and two chapters of the book describing the author's (native Kansas Citian William Least Heat-Moon) riverboat voyage up the Missouri River through the Kansas City area (including Lexington, Fort Osage,...

Excerpt describes the history of the "TWA Moonliner," a 40-foot tall model of a rocketship bearing the TWA logo. The rocket was created as a part of the "Rocket to the Moon" attraction at Disneyland, and...

List of books approved by the Library Boards' Building Oversight Committee on March 16, 2004, for the Library parking garage ''Community Book Shelf.'' The Committee created the last three anthologies....

Obituary for James D. Freeman, dying on April 10, 2003, at his home in Kansas City, Missouri, at age 91. Reverend Freeman was poet laureate of Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, Missouri. Besides...